This group of Rockdale High School student athletic trainers have been so well-taught, they didn’t even have to replace the school athletic trainer for the 2022 football season. The district now has someone from Baylor Scott & White come to the games to supervise. The BSW trainer told me—during the middle of the first game he ever worked with RHS students— about how welltrained they are and how much he doesn’t have to do because of their expertise. Don’t cut the program please, kids already don’t have a lot of options at Rockdale High School and the last thing kids at RHS need is even less outlets. —wt— On my way out of the office on Monday, my boss Kyle told me he had to head to a city council meeting.
Thinking about the more than $300,000 in HOT funds sitting around that the council discussed at the meeting I attended a few weeks ago, I thought: “Hopefully someone there tells a few of our elected leaders that scared money don’t make no money.”— wt— When I picked Appalachian State to beat Texas A&M last week, did I think it would actually happen? No. But am I delighted that it happened? Yes, VERY. —wt— For all the people like me with English, Scottish, Welsh or Irish ancestry, how do you think your ancestors would feel knowing that you’re mourning a member of the British royal family?
When I t ell p eople here that I used to live in Australia, every now and then, a fellow American will say to me, “Oh that’s the place that England used to send all of their prisoners.”
In my ex per ience, many Australians would respond to that w ith “Well, where do you think they sent all of their prisoners before 1776?” —wt— Speaking of bones to pick, Mandy San Migel, if you’re reading this, I’ll try to get a picture of Cruz this week…or at least if Steve Young isn’t there. —wt— Last but not least, thinking about Kyle’s little tidbit about the white gentleman using the “n” word (with a hard “r” may I add) at the gas station last week. For all people that I share a racial identity with, don’t say that word when you know you wouldn’t like being called white trash.
And for all my Latinos who say the “n” word, here’s a little secret for y’all…your black friends don’t like it when you say it either. “Bro” or “dude” will work just as well and both of those words even have one less syllable, so it saves you some time.
A COLUMN TO BE NAMED LATER
Wynton Thomason
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